Simos Zenios
Peter V. Tsantes Endowed Assistant Professor in Hellenic Studies
Coordinator, Hellenic Studies
Education:
B.A., Greek Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 2004
M.A., General and Comparative Literature, The University of Edinburgh, 2007
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Harvard University, 2018
Contact Information:
Email: simos.zenios@stonybrook.edu
Office: 2126 Humanities Building
Simos Zenios studied Greek Philology at the University of Athens and General and Comparative Literature at the University of Edinburgh, before obtaining his Ph. D. in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Before joining Stony Brook University as Peter V. Tsantes Endowed Assistant Professor in Hellenic Studies in 2024, he worked at UCLA as a lecturer in Modern Greek and as Associate Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Hellenic Studies. His research interests include the intersection between literature and intellectual history in European Enlightenment and Romanticism, literary and critical theory, and classical receptions. He has published on such topics as the literature of the Greek Revolution, philhellenism and imperialism, Enlightenment rhetoric, Greek modernism, and early modern Cypriot lyric poetry.
- Hellenic Studies
- European and Transatlantic Enlightenment & Romanticism
- Intellectual History
- Literary and Critical Theory
- Classical Receptions
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES & CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES
- “‘When I Turn toward that Side:’ Lyric Address and Literary Transfers in the Collection
of Early Modern Greek Cypriot Lyric Poetry (cod. Marc. gr. IX, 32 [=1287]).” Forthcoming
in From Byzantium to the Early Greek Enlightenment: Books, Authors, and Ideologies in Early Modern Greek Contexts (15th-18th c.), ed. Panagiotis Roilos (Brill).
- “‘The Grand Sacrifice:’ Violence and Revolution in Adamantios Korais’s Asma Polemistirion (1800),” The Greek Revolution of 1821: Contexts, Scottish Connections, the Classical Tradition, ed. Roderick Beaton and Niels Gaul, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, 86-109.
- “Means and Beginnings: Voicing Revolution in Solomos’s Early Work.” The Journal of Greek Media and Culture, vol. 7:2, 2021, 203-218.
- “‘The Force and Energy that Lie in the several Words:’ Joseph Addison’s Defense of Metaphor. Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, vol. 39:3, 2021, 322-339.
- “The Poet as Prophet and Puppet: Romos Philyras and the Afterlife of Romanticism.” Σύγκριση / Comparaison / Comparison, vol. 26, 2018, 31-47.
- “‘Dividuous Waves of Greece:’ Hellenism between Empire and Revolution.” Politics. Rivista di Studi Politici, vol. 5, no. 1, 2016, pp. 71-88.
REVIEWS
- The Cypriot Collection of Petrarchist and other Renaissance Poems ed. by Paschalis M. Kitromilides, and: Studies on the Cypriot Collection of Renaissance Poems ed. by Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 42:1, 2024, 108-113.
- Enlightenment and Revolution: The Making of Modern Greece. By Paschalis M. Kitromilides. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40, 2017, pp. 148–150.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
- Co-curator of the exhibition “Dionysios Solomos… two flames… Manolis Charos,” Gennadius Library, ASCSA, Athens, March 28 - June 30, 2023.
- Dramaturge for Prometheus, scene 1 (4th Mikro Ancient Drama Festival, Limassol, 2016)
- Mellon- Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms Fellowship, 2019-20
- Cotsen Traveling Fellowship at the Gennadius Library, American School of Classical
Studies in Athens, 2018-19
- Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant, 2018-19
- M. Alison Frantz Fellow at the Gennadius Library, American School of Classical Studies in Athens, 2015-16